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Price: 9.99

So often we exhaust ourselves and the planet in a search for very large pleasures, while all around us lies a wealth of small pleasures, which if only we paid more attention could bring us solace and joy at little cost and effort.

This is a book to guide us to the best of life’s small pleasures: the distinctive delight of holding a child’s hand, having a warm bath or the joy of the evening sky. It is an intriguing, evocative mix of small pleasures to heighten the senses and return us to the world with new-found excitement and enthusiasm.

Small pleasures are points of access to the great themes of our lives. Every chapter puts one such moment of enjoyment under a magnifying glass to find out what’s really going on and why it touches, moves and makes us smile.

• An accessible collection of small pleasures that will heighten our senses and return us to the world with new-found excitement and enthusiasm

• 52 short and digestible meditations on life’s small moments of happiness, designed for dipping into when a spare 5 minutes allows.

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Type: Media
Price: 9.99

This is a book that explores the causes of our greatest stresses and anxieties and gives us a succession of highly persuasive, beautiful and sometimes dryly comic arguments with which to defend ourselves against panic and confusion.

A guide to developing the art of finding serenity by understanding the sources of our anxiety and frustrations.

Nowadays almost all of us wish we could be calmer; it is one of the distinctive longings of the modern age. Across history people have sought adventure and excitement, however a new priority for many of us is a desire to be more tranquil. This is a book designed to support us in our endeavours to remain calm against all the adversities life throws at us.

A calm state of mind is not a divine gift, we can alter our responses to everyday things and educate ourselves in the art of remaining calm, not through slow breathing or special teas, but through thinking.

• A refreshing approach to the art of finding calm and serenity in a busy and complicated world

• Acknowledges and explores the causes of anxiety and frustration and provides advice on how to confront the sources of our stress

• A practical guide that equips readers with the mental tools needed to remain calm in the face of life’s anxieties and stresses.

Vendor: THESCH01
Type: Media
Price: 14.00

52 cards to deepen and transform the experience of travel. Going travelling can be one of life’s greatest activities – but often, we fail to deepen the experience as much as we should and return home with some of the promise of our trip unrealised. Here is a pack of cards designed to help us get the very best out of travel – and to embed its greatest lessons in our minds.

The cards contain questions that we can reflect on ourselves (in a journal or on a train ride) or ask others in a group – and that lead us to think deeply about how we might derive maximal satisfaction from a trip.

This is an ingenious, low-tech, high-impact solution to one of the great conundrums of travel: how to ensure that the reality of going away will match our hopes.

Instructions
1. Use these cards to enrich conversation with yourself and others while you are on a trip.
2. Use them particularly at the close of each day.
3. Consider using each question as the title of a journal entry.
4. Adopt a more conscious, psychologically-searching way of travelling – and enlist kind friends in your ambitions.

Examples
Cards will propose questions such as:
• What is this destination trying – in its way – to teach you?
• Local shops might be trying to sell you souvenirs. What ideas might you take away from here instead?
• What would you like not to forget about being here?
• How could you change your life in some way because of what you have seen here?

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Type: Media
Price: 25.00

It isn’t easy to get into a good conversation. Many of our best ones seem to have happened by chance. Far from it - we believe a great conversation always starts with someone asking a great question.

In this set of beautiful cards, you’ll find laid out 100 of the very best questions around, carefully designed to get a group of people into exceptionally entertaining and meaningful conversations.

Example Questions:

• What’s the best evening you ever had?
• Are you where you wanted to be at this stage in your life?
• What do you and your partner argue about most?
• What are the best things you owe your parents?
• Would you be happy to tell your friends how much you earn?
• Have you ever had a religious experience?

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Type: Media
Price: 14.00

A pack of 52 cards to us understand what truly matters through deep and entertaining conversation.

We sometimes playfully wonder what the meaning of life might be - but it can be hard to kick start a conversation with ourselves (let alone with anyone else) around such a daunting subject. Here are 52 cards that directly and elegantly lead us to some of the largest questions about life and its meaning – cards that help us and our companions to think with exceptional depth about what truly matters, where we see ourselves heading and what gives life its purpose.

This is a tool for direction, clarity – and some of the deepest yet most fun and entertaining conversations we’ll ever have.

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Type: Media
Price: 14.00

52 cards with questions and exercises for deeper and more meaningful conversations with friends.

Meeting up with our friends is one of life’s great pleasures. We look forward to a chance to connect, share news and reaffirm our affection and sense of fun. But having a great time together, even with people we know well, is not necessarily as simple as it sounds. We don’t always manage to hit the right sort of topics of conversation and get to say the truly important things.

This is a pack of cards with questions on them that guarantee that our encounters will be properly joyful and interesting. The questions take us through how conversation should ideally flow, from the more everyday topics to what is sincere, deep and tender.

The cards take us on a perfect journey across a meal or a drink, from catching up to reconfirming why we matter to one another.

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Type: Media
Price: 15.00

This book explores ideas around minimalism, simplicity and how to live comfortably with less.

We live in a complicated, frenzied, and noisy world, filled with too much information, too many products, ideas, and opinions. As a result, many of us long for simplicity: a pared down, more peaceful, and less cluttered life. 

This book is a guide to the simpler lives we crave and deserve. In it, we learn about Zen Buddhism, modernist architecture, monasteries, psychoanalysis, and why three good friends and a few treasured belongings are enough. 

Taking a psychological approach, the book also guides us toward inner simplicity. For too long we've been drowning in excess, clutter, and confusion. A Simpler Life helps us tune out the static and focus on what really matters.

This book:

Helps you to declutter your life in practical ways to get rid of physical and psychological clutter.

Gives advice how to be direct on adopting a simpler, more straight-forward mindset.

Shows the appeal of minimalism and looks at why more of us are drawn to a pared down existence.

Helps to simplify everything from relationships, social life, lifestyle, and work.

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Type: Media
Price: 12.00

An empowering guide to creating a kinder, more loving world.

The modern world is richer, safer and more connected than ever. But it is also a far less loving world than we need or want: impatience, self-righteousness, moralism and viciousness run rampant, while forgiveness, tolerance and empathy seem in short supply.

This book reminds us how much humans long for, and depend on, love. Far from a romantic or idealized fantasy, love is a powerful and dignified force that can save us from cruelty, defend us against chaos, and usher in hope and courage. We all crave forgiveness and fair treatment. In a world full of technical advances, corporate greed, and automation, this book argues that the true goal of civilization should be extending patience and kindness to everyone we meet. 

With the right encouragement, all of us are capable of immense kindness. But without it, we can also quickly descend into something far darker. This inspiring book reminds us of our better natures and mobilizes us to fight for a kinder, more loving world.

Chapters include: A Loveless World, Attitudes that Foster Love, Attitudes that Hinder Love, and Towards a More Loving World.

This book:

Focuses on humanity at large and our friends, family, and even colleagues.

Explores attitudes towards failure and forgiveness within society.

Reminds us of the global need for love and kindness.

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Type: Media
Price: 18.00

This is a tool for helping you focus on what you need to be fulfilled so that you can direct your energies and thoughts most effectively.

It can be hard to decide what we really want to achieve in our lives; our ambitions are often scattered, diverse and difficult to pin down. This deck contains 160 cards detailing our most common ambitions and longings, along with instructions on how to reflect on our goals, arrange them in a logical order of priorities and, where necessary, weigh up trade-offs. Using the cards will help us to reveal our true purpose. The cards can be displayed, photographed or kept close to hand as a reminder of the path ahead. This is a simple-seeming but ingenious psychological tool for converting hunches and dreams into a realisable future.

• Contains 160 cards that represent possible goals and priorities. There are 140 goals and priorities arranged into 10 categories, corresponding to the areas of life we all need to focus on in order to find fulfillment: Body, Family, Friendship/Sociability, Leisure, Love, Meaning, Money, Mood, Self and Work.
• There are also included 20 blank cards, so you can write down any goals or priorities that aren’t included in this set. In the booklet, you'll find six exercises for using the cards. Don’t feel obliged to use any of them: you might just want to arrange the cards yourself according to whatever order comes to mind.

The School of Life has designed the exercises to give you a means of selecting and organising your goals, helping you determine which are the most important, urgent, realistic or meaningful, so that you can establish a plan for achieving or prioritising those you choose.

Once chosen, the cards can be used however you see fit. You might find it useful to keep them close at hand, perhaps tucked into a purse or wallet, pinned to a noticeboard, or photographed on your phone, as a reminder of where you are truly headed.

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Type: Media
Price: 15.00

A practical and playful guide to balancing and maintaining physical and mental harmony.

The modern world can present the body as a machine that just needs to be regularly exercised. However, it is a remarkably sensitive organ in which a lot of our pain and hope is stored and that we need to interpret and handle with subtlety. This impact of our body upon our mind is something that needs to be explored as it is easy to pay attention to one more than the other and to ignore the crucial balance between the two.

This is a book filled with reflections and exercises designed to help us live more harmoniously and maturely within both mind and body. It gives guidance on how to calm our minds with bodily exercises that work on the real sources of our anxieties. It suggests how to be less rigid in, and timid about, our bodies and how to relax into them in a way we might not have done for far too long. It offers ideas on how to accept the way we look, and how to treat the body in order for it to assist the mind in yielding its very best ideas. The impacts of activities such as singing, dancing and art are explored along with the liberation of spirit that these might offer.

This is a book, both theoretical and practical, that will improve our relationship between our physical and mental selves and allow us a route to a life of greater self-assurance, wisdom and freedom to be ourselves.

Hardback book | 248 pages | 86 Illustrations

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Type: Media
Price: 15.00

A guide to greater serenity

A therapeutic and consoling workbook with exercises to soothe anxiety and create a state of calm.

Most of us long to be a little calmer: too many of our days are lost to agitation and worry, stress and discord. Yet we know that we are at our best when we can manage not to panic and take challenges in our stride.

Fortunately, a calm state of mind is not a divine gift. Even those of us starting from a more agitated position can systematically understand and lay claim to it. Too many books on this subject simply explain what it would be like to be calm. This is a workbook that takes us through the practical steps required to actually become calm. It is filled with exercises and prompts that deliver the self-understanding and self-compassion on which true serenity depends. Furthermore, the book invites us to build calming routines into our daily lives so that what we learn can stick with us and change us for the long term.

Based on years of The School of Life's work in the area of anxiety and calm, this is a landmark workbook guaranteed to bring about the calmer state of mind we long for and deserve.

Chapters include:

• Learning to Handle Moods 
• Philosophical Meditation
• No one is Normal
• Global Pessimism

Hardback book | 192 pages | 65 exercises | 222 x 155 mm | With exercises and room for notes

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Type: General
Price: 22.00

This elegant hourglass sand timer measures 15 minutes precisely from the start of each turn.

Our lives are so busy and frenetic; we are always forgetting to make time for what really matters. To make sure our priorities are well set, The School of Life have created a finely crafted glass sand timer to remind us to carve out 15 minutes a day for what truly counts. That isn't very long, and that's the point: it's longer than we often give to so many of the things we ostensibly think of as so important – like properly listening to a partner, rationally analysing our career ambitions, or playing in a concentrated way with a child.

The 15 minute glass doesn’t tell you what exactly to do with its allotted time. It just demarcates a very modest and manageable period – then it creates a floor beneath which it suggests we don’t fall. It delicately shames us into doing a minimum of what really counts. It is a gauntlet thrown down to our better selves.

Give yourself 15 minutes to finally write that letter to an old friend, or isolate a short window of time for quiet reflection on an important topic.

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Type: Media
Price: 25.00

A set of 100 question cards to spark meaningful conversations around love, life, culture and family. These question cards can be brought out at family gatherings or dinner parties to provoke debate and initiate discussions which might otherwise go neglected.

It isn’t easy to get into a good conversation. Many of our best ones seem to have happened by chance. Far from it – we believe a great conversation always starts with someone asking a great question.

In this set of beautiful cards, you’ll find laid out 100 of the very best questions around, carefully designed to get a group of people into exceptionally entertaining and meaningful conversations.

Split into categories, these cards cover:

• Personality & Emotions
• Work & Money
• Family & Friendship
• Travel, Culture & Taste
• Personality & Emotions
• Sex & Relationships
• Life & Death

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Type: Media
Price: 18.00

It’s sometimes remarkably hard to tell other people how we really feel; it may even be tricky for us to get clear about our own moods.

So mostly, if people ask how we are, we’ll just say, ‘Fine’ – while of course knowing we’ve only provided a sharp abbreviation of all that’s actually going on in our minds.

This set of 20 cards with a movable dial on the box.is a tool to help us over our vagueness: cards that crisply, deeply and at points wittily define twenty moods that we can all recognise but that we sometimes have a hard time pinning down and explaining.

Here are descriptions of – among many other things – the sense of feeling Weepy, Nostalgic, Anxious and Dreamy. The cards help us to get a clearer understanding of our inner emotional weather – and at the same time, can be passed on to friends and colleagues (or simply displayed on our desk) so that the world can better know what’s going inside us – without our needing to explain too much. 

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Type: Media
Price: 14.00

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Type: Media
Price: 25.00

The great enemy of love is a lack of communication; and its great friend is talk.

This pack includes questions and actions to unblock silence between couples.

Take this opportunity to relearn who you both are, what you care about – and why you still have very deep feelings for one another.

Pack contains 100 cards with dice.